AUSTRO GERMANY.
STRIKES IN AUSTRIA. A THREAT BREWS STRIKERS TO HEEL. Received March 18, p.m. Berue, March 17. Wireless: The Austrian censor has suppressed the news of serious strikes in several towns, including Vienna. The employees of the State railway workshops on the north-western and northern railways joined in the movement. The Government threatened to shoot the leaders and send the strikers to the front and imprison the unfit. The strike in the workshops thereupon collapsed, hut several factories are still idle.
REVOLTS IN AUSTRIAN NAVY
AN ADMIRAL RELIEVED. Received March 18, 0.30 p.m. Rome, March 17
According to a Vienna message, Admiral Niegovan lias been relieved of the command of the Austrian fleet owing te revolts among the crews. Other officers have been subjected to various degrees of punishment for the same reason.
ADMIRAL TIRPITZ EXPLAINS. WHAT U-BOAT VICTORY MEANS. Amsterdam, March 17. Admiral Til'pitz savs: "If the U-boat war is continued unflinchingly we shall get peace from England, ensuring Germany a naval base on the Flemish coast for ever." .
GERMAN OFFICIAL. Received March IS, 7-50 p.m. London, March 17. Wireless German official: After ten hours' artillerying the French advanced upon a wide front westward of Avocourt. They were repulsed by lire and band to hand fighting. We took prisoner on the eastward bank of the Meuse two hundred. We downed seventeen aeroplanes on Saturday.
SERIOUS STRIKE AT BUDAPEST,
Zurich, March 17. The Leipsiger Neuesto Naclirichten reports that a strike has broken out at Budapest of enormous proportions. The strikers have interrupted the telegraphs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1918, Page 5
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